[NF] How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing

[Ted Roche]

How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing

Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block-windows-10-april-2018-update-from-installing.html

Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.
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[Fred Taylor]

Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any
warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet
again!

Curse you Bill Gates!!!!


Fred

Post by Ted Roche
How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing
Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-
windows/how-to-block-windows-10-april-2018-update-from-installing.html
Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.
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http://www.tedroche.com

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[Ted Roche]

Post by Fred Taylor
Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any
warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet
again!
Curse you Bill Gates!!!!

Yeah, Bill don't work here no more. He took all his filthy lucre and
he's off defeating malaria and polio and saving the world and it's
hard to hate on the guy except, you know, Windows. And Clippy. And
killing VFP.

I'm doing family tech support, and a couple of the folks have
SLLOOOOWWW internet connections (like 1 Mbps) and Windows updates are
killing them. I'm going to try the "metered" trick that Woody suggests
in the article. "Feature Updates" are entirely new versions of Windows
that are 1 Gb or more in size and try to install right on top of old
and sometimes corrupt Windows and cause all sorts of problems.
Freemanize (tm), I say! And, of course, you really have to wait until
SP1 ships before anything's usable. The more things change,...
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[Man-wai Chang]

I doubt Mr. Gates had anything to recent builds of Windows.

And you should blame the management, programmers and engineers in Micro$oft!

Post by Fred Taylor
Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any
warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet
again!
Curse you Bill Gates!!!!

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[Alan Bourke]

FWIW, for anyone that does end up with it installed, all things Fox seem to work fine.
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[AndyHC]

Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

Post by Ted Roche
How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing
Woody Leonhard to the rescue once again.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block-windows-10-april-2018-update-from-installing.html
Enterprise and WSUS users, yea, blah-blah-blah, you know what to do already.

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[Alan Bourke]

Post by AndyHC
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

It appears that it does.

However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.
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[Ted Roche]

Post by Alan Bourke

Post by AndyHC
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.

Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing
family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold"
option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to
unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy
1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of
"We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it
or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all
the machines I have to support.
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[Ricardo Araoz]

Post by Ted Roche

Post by Alan Bourke

Post by AndyHC
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.

Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing
family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold"
option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to
unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy
1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of
"We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it
or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all
the machines I have to support.

So, all they have to do for you to open your wallet and pay for more
than you need is to bugger you on the Home edition?

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[Alan Bourke]

You can still get the Home edition free if you have Win 7 AFAIK, so they have to charge for something.
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Post by Ricardo Araoz

Post by Ted Roche

Post by Alan Bourke

Post by AndyHC
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version. The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those versions.

Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing
family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold"
option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to
unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy
1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of
"We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it
or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all
the machines I have to support.

So, all they have to do for you to open your wallet and pay for more
than you need is to bugger you on the Home edition?

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[Ted Roche]

No. I don't buy, and don't recommend Windows.

Home is a crippled version, as we know from trying to run VFP on it.

When the next relative asks for a new machine, I'll ensure THEY pay
for a Pro version on it.

(written on my Chromebook, instead of my usual Linux box)

Post by Ted Roche

Post by Alan Bourke

Post by AndyHC
Doesn't the "I'm on a metered connection" thing work?

It appears that it does.
However this forced update thing is only a problem for the Home version.
The Pro, Enterprise and Education versions have a supported method of
turning this behaviour off via a menu option or group policy, and anyone
using Win 10 in a business or education context should be using one of those
versions.

Yes. The "I'm on a metered connection" works for Home, too. I'm doing
family tech support on this one. However, I tried the "put on hold"
option for the 1803 update, and then switched the Ethernet to
unmetered and it _still_ installed the brand-new, unpatched, buggy
1803 "Feature Update" at 1.65 gigabytes. Microsoft's new motto of
"We're going to do what we think is good for you whether you like it
or not" is a bit presumptuous. Next time, I'm installing "Pro" on all
the machines I have to support.

So, all they have to do for you to open your wallet and pay for more than
you need is to bugger you on the Home edition?

[excessive quoting removed by server]

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